Is there any reason to spend the extra cost for a 360GB SSD drive to use as a primary drive running Windows 7 Professional?

On most of my new purchases/deployments, I've been using a 128GB SSD drive, and installing a secondary drive for data. Our developers run virtual machines, and some of them are remote, so there's VPN latency as well.

I get that the PM that's making this request is looking for the performance boost from SSD, but is there a good reason that I'm not thinking of for spending the extra on the larger drives?

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No, no good reason at all unless you drop the second and run everything SSD. If you config with the "program files &(x86)" folders on the mechanical the rest is just wasted space. You can partition the drive and use some as scratch disk but that will chew thru the life of the drive in no time.

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Is there any reason to spend the extra cost for a 360GB SSD drive to use as a primary drive running Windows 7 Professional?

On most of my new purchases/deployments, I've been using a 128GB SSD drive, and installing a secondary drive for data. Our developers run virtual machines, and some of them are remote, so there's VPN latency as well.

I get that the PM that's making this request is looking for the performance boost from SSD, but is there a good reason that I'm not thinking of for spending the extra on the larger drives?

Go flash-all-around. Cheap these days and major performance boost. Leave spindles to ice cold data and keep them in a NAS / SAN boxes.

Depends on what your running it in. If your on a laptop that has only one drive bay then put in the big SSD if its on a workstation then maybe you can move some stuff off to spinning metal. But the whole point of an SSD is to speed up access time. If you are moving all the files you are trying to access off to an HDD and only using the SSD for your os...then you'll get a nice quick boot time but when your doing data intensive reads and could actually use the performance if your still on platters then your really not getting anything out of having an SSD.